Centre Democrat. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, December 12, 1940, Image 15
December 12, 1940. THE CENTRF DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. EE p— rom Many Neighboring Sections of ; Nasty Feud In This Centre | County Yale; Or, Don’t Call Page Seven the State nteresting News Features Gathered "1 Altoona Youth Has Head Severed As He Leans Out —— The Oldtimer “WHAT MU DOING BUD, WIRITING 10 SANTA? LOOKS LIKE QUITE A LIST YOU HAVE THERE, LEYS SEE, A SLED, APICYC LE, Odd and Random CURIOUS in the = NEWS ARRAS AALVIWWWAY More Bananas It's banana breakfast and dinner far two-year-o Tielsch, of wh fering {rom renders her allergic two months she has age of 100 pound 10 days pound: be added next two years | bananas, physicial for Pittsburgh, celiac and In to . Hard Ingredient Joseph Mi shouted tato dum night. He cls on a piece glass George N. Stillman, whe dumplings was not pert “glass” was a diamond slipped out of ring while he dumpling Blind man ol Oud ' as he bit Refuses $3600 A hand-carved sewing machine a prized posse n of Coney, was father, brewer years ag tique for SRYS, ha as $3600 for of Montgomery nobhy of (C twenty-Lv anegq dow? cs ses mes Smart Pup Mrs, C. P. Barnecut bus, Ohio, says this reall; Parking automobile ghe locked the doors auto Jeaving her keys in her pet Boston she coaxed Mitz out of ni them opened ventilator wi de Ge tor y to — on p— —— Lucky Crash Mr. and Mrs. J Salt Lake City, 1 lives to the fact th in two automobile of one. Their cap aftér it was struck fro another machine jately, however ed into the Ste pact threw the blaze. Reed Stewart “The Pois in which love matic role n Crystal New ser and hate play ds eging in the big re Sunday all Newstands. Fred R. Umbach, who served in the has and has offered it adopted country, ‘as a sighed to aerial WIFE SAVES Walter Baugher, of Pranklin, has | a: his cool-heac wife thank f saving him from being gored by 240-pound 12-point buck in Sugar Run district near Kinzu Warren county, After shooting unsuccessfully a while on Priday, had only two shells left when spotted the buck. St ed 0 him over. Her husband laid down his g Going home for the holidays 2Go by Penn. sylvania Railroad — save money! Go Pullman round. trip-and you pay only 2%c a mile, Special reduced Pullman fares cover the period Dec. 20 to Jan. 5 (Going until Jan. 1) =~s0 you haveasmagy as 16 days for a nice long visit at home of a glotious id - wintér vacation. Rates for Pullman ac- commodations are cut, 100~50 yOu Can get a ial LL the December 22 issue of The American Weekly, azine distributed with American, of Grove City, German navy during the World War, declares he invented a bombing defen to the War De- partment of the United States, his patriotic protect bombardment HUNTERS LIFE OT Mais the a, y for Mrs. Baugher sh» ie fired once, hitting him in the hip and bowling un grand night's sleep in air-conditioned facili- ties; and on many through trains, enjoy beautiful Pullman | lounges... all ata © GO NOW=—~ saving! a Go Coach~and you ride for 2c a mile one- way. ..as little as Yc a mile round-trip! So take the Pennsylvania for your Christmas tip. . . enjoy the ride! cooenjoy the savings! GIVE A Ti FOR A GIFT} ak 38 Pans Tieget Offers : : : : : AlLocna vy night head, w Cireenwood KULOS te Coliege, driv { s10¢ House Moved Six Inches By Crash Heavy Damages to George Wright told police he Barrett Home at Cedar Springs iffered bruise ice and bod ——— Electors to Cast Vole office The Governor's has & a& Prof Jan SIX electors who the 16 10 cast voles for { Henry A. Wallace i the effective anti-aircrafy fire The tiny plane carries a pint o! nitroglycerin, which be exploded by collision Umbach my craft. torpedo is of ge with said ial large number When the fuel 5 ed a ts charge would set Off In the air royon Ter poly | cut I revived, him and tried to gore him. Baughe; then @ gained around several trees, finally ning him to the ground In a desperate husband, the crashed the butt i deer's neck. The buck's attempt PAUCKY blow broke gE ed detel= LATE" Reusd- Trip Rail Fares in Pulimans cut to 2" 2 Mile, going Dec. 20 "tl Jan. 1. Returning ntl Jansary § & ¥ left you “short” ¥ - PAY LATER! New Time. Payment Travel Plan tation--everything Py Ber in conven Ticker or Travel Agent Fon der 4 Gittirderamisale tor d wl Ivaiia Fatiroad 4 ES I PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD i election of thirty will Senate chamber De- Presi- Roosevelt and Vice-President. £5 ran half- would an his : inexpensive and would be highly effective if used in exhaust- id the mode! plane descends, be automatically into the ani- kicked Mra. fireq her last shell The deer ggain went down, but re- its feet and chased Baugher pin- to save womaa of her rifle on the the neck and saved Baugher. b Holiday purchases : 5 ; 5 wo ! Nomoneydown! You | ¥ get complete yangpor- i ten dnseallmenes, Ak BF H A other car Of Car Being Sideswiped State College Man Involved Which Results in Death of Young Man Near Greenwood, Blair County, Saturday Night in Accident wi Hospital with eves filled from his Lhe victim Sommer thie Cl admitted to Altoona facial cuts and hi with splintered gla Car windshield, which head apparently struck "car did not p police sald, and they lm- mediately notified surrounding county sub-stations to watch for a nik=run driver Upon arrival at Altoona Hospital wr. police foung Sommers, t19- witli two other passengers { is car, Edward DBuechler, 21 nd John Barnhart, 23, had brough dead body there, After alighting from } Pettit, blinded by tha hattered u {rom hi; windshield, wa wandering abou: the highway, Nis eyes by his hands. Driver an some distance benind the accident occurred ht, also of State Col- Pettit to the hospital ‘saw ne 4 5 Wad P U8 car, yvered aul lege, removed no wi Sommers and h! their re- Altronang left t time before im. one repor apparently when head out U window In of the car 1 route Ww ne A PONY, A ELECTRIC TRAIN. DO WHEN | WAS YOUR AGE AND | FOUND A TWO BLADE IN MY STOCKIN ON CHRISTMAS MORNIN’, | WAS TH HAPPIEST poy IN ERICA, (rem " ge | afler STUDYING TURNPIKE TUNNELS Dr. Frank M. Swartz, associate professor of paleontology at the Pennsylvania State College col leborating with D Arthur B Cleaves, geologist for the newly com- pleted Pennsylvania Turnpike, in an examination of Silurian forme- \ moun - v v 21 Ir | ation nNeove! in the rock dee along the Tumplke of interesting tain t 4% This geologic s one nase tudies that have been made possible by the 7 n | exons Dr Cleaves ie Lhe nye tions. be tart ol GET ALL THAT DOWN TH'CHIMNEY SHOCKS SHINY KNIFE YoU SUPPOSE HE (aM / Them Skunks MacKelvey Philadelphia Record Sports Editor Draws on Overworked Imagination For Hill-Billy Story of Bitter Neighborhood Quarrel (Editor's Nols The following highly-seented story by Bill Dris- | coll, sporis editor of the Philadelphia Record, appeared in edition. As skunks may be found in | practically every section of Centre county's broad area, the reader Is invited lo use his own judgment in selecting the locale for tals true (7) tale by an overwrought report. er.) By Bill Driscoll If ever there was a natural feud iL was the grudge between Old “Her- mit" Kittlesea and the MacKelvey boys. It was like this: Old Kittiesea lives on Oli of a pretty valley up in Centre county: the MacKel. veys live on the other Between the two farms and {orming a natural boundary runs a shallow, swif ning creek Naturally, you cant run a oe down the middle of a creek: it was inevitable that Qld Kittlesea's all- cows and pigs would wander across the creek into the MacKelveys' eorn and cabbage—and vice versa possible, of course gown either side of then, the cattle woul the water Old Kitlesea didn't saturday, aller what his neighbor's « automobile collision was a hit-or-miss sort of codger, lean and tanned and nq sae Tr i= on to examine posed by Rallway was weather the Sil urian beds ex- fen Vanderbilt whose general the New the abandoned 0 project, route followed by highway — Reported Hurt in Crash Elsle Quick, 22 M It Ww run f« the Creek ny he nees but able to reach Oem nr attie LANGUAGE OF THE DOUGHBOY arent tv iy guns retreat indicate g dash all aren't and soldier wonder army lingo ntal tatlspins the of et ol niarnnee pLIonN military met er and } wel came uj glossary terms, slang and abbreviations ten cloud the layman Automatic Pistol {or just “autos matic) A type of hand firearm that feed I its chambers, dis. Larges - empty ariridges with each squeeze of the trigger; definitely not a "revoiver”™ vhich contains cartridges in a ree VOIVILg cyilndes Automatic Rifle-A of between an ordinary machine gun: a big clip is fed automatically ber: loading, firing automatic No More Caissons Caltson—Wheeled with this al army that ¥ 1 a5 4 QLLLIELS LT them, ar fects Le mpromise and a of cartrikiges y the cham- ccling are rie PAR Cal i017 CRITY » ng shells with seldom seen, now field artillery has been and carries ammunition ame truck that tow tiller; mos field ar pi of that in the Caliber—The sige of ¢ pressed by the meas diameter of ~Containes £3353 ) Carrs a daN own water on the march: also, t where soft drinks, beer, shoe polish candy, el are to the troops C. O-Commanding officer of any unit, camp or garrison, unless he happens to be a general; then he C. G., or commanding genera! Const Artillery-Braneh of the army charged with coastal defense; mans snti-airerafl gus, search- lights, sound detectors, and harbor defenses; definitely not “the coast guard artillery.” as it sometimes is called: has nothing 0 do with the Coast Guard seagoing ageney of the U. 8. treasury Colors—Term applied fo the Da- tional emblem carried Ly dismounted troops, ele drinkin he store sold motorized ' Dog F nas $4094 caven Em only alter to death.” cynics lnsist Dog Robber—Officer's servant, or OO ation 0 High Angle Firing Howitzer-—An artillery a stubby barrel that fires high angle; especially getting targets other oistacles are fire ai hax [all Line Troon Uni wii Nae I) mba aL medical be you ve starved piece with : shells at useful for Naas wrsonal farly oraern at - hen in the ow Doughboy -—-8lang term for an ine of fantryman Dud ed to ext Fie mounied HUCKS or Dell hauled country Garand--Un« He and no one elw Shell or bomb nee Artilic: riilier ors from ml wih { over nits wEWER Ly hot and * ’ fag ¢ FRCLOr: cCapalie of across Machine ¢ guns firing silomatically JunsYario Vie ol small-arms cartridge so~calied “ign an . A envy” air-cooled and water-cooled Mel" I repiaciig he puns use regular 30-caliber rifle Springfield; named for is IDVENLOT, | jets: anti-tank puns. 50-caliber the gas that propels the bullel al%o jet works the loading, firing and eject ing mechanism every tie the rifle man squeetes the rigger CG. 1-Covernment sue any- {Hing the government supplies, from uBderwenr to garbage cans Cuidon--8mall pennant : ing the company, troop or battery, Meal Cun—Generally speaking any Mortar—A stubby gun with = firearia, but specifically, a long-bar- short barrel and a wide mouth that relied artillery plece (Contined on page eight) roads of name Of the ’ {iO niw Low bul- bul- Mechanized «— A force equipped with armored fighting vehicles, not just with trucks Mess Without intending flection on the quality of arms identify. It's the official term applied to ans any re. food F. D. R. 281,187 Ahead In Penna. State Department Announces Official Count of Novem- ber Vote President Roosevelt defeated Wen dell L. Willkie in Pennsylvania on November 5 by 281,187 votes, accord- ing to the official count released last Wednesday by the State Depart- ment State-wide totals are: President—Roosevelt Willkie, Socialist, 2.171.035; 1880848; Norman Thomas, 10.667; Earl Browder, Com- munist, 4519; John W. Aiken, Indus. trial Government, 1518. United States Senator--Jogseph F Guffey, Democrat, 2069080: Jay Cooke, Republican, 1.803.104; David H. H. Felix, Socialist, 15449: H. B Mansell, Prohibition, 11.113; Carl Reeve, Communist, 4761; Frank Knotek, 2503 Auditor General—F. Clair Ross, Democrat, 2000340: Frederick T Gelder, Republican, 1861197; Wil liam PF. Miller, Prohibition, Peter Joseph Paul, Communist, 5.- 116; George 8. Taylor, Industrial Government, 3357 State Treasurer-G. Harold Wag- ner, Democrat, 2,083,712: James F Malone, Jr.. Republican J. Lindsey, Prohibition, 11785; Ben- jamin Careathers, Communist, 4. M6: Mary Gesensway, Industrial Government, 2432. ME ———— Deer Shot gt 50 Times A six-point buck slain by Thomas | Eriley, of Northumberiand, dodged 50 shots on Montour Ridge before it was killed. The deer was first sighted by four members of the No. One Fire Company and all emptied their guns, Walter Neidigh reload- ed his and fired ten shots. Harley Ciotti had to jump behind a corn shock to escape being stampeded, while Clifford Snyder and William | The reer | Bollinger fired away. finally eluded the firemen and ran into a nearby woods where Ertley bagged it. It weighed 135 pounds, Bellwood Soldier a Suicide 12,040; ' 1.883.043; L.| | Alien. Registrations Close December 26 i liens have only two more weeks ‘to register before they become li- {able to the heavy penalties provided by the national alien registration act, Postmaster George R. Meek, of lefonte, cautioned yesterday. The jast day for registration is December 26, but since registrations are taken only at postoffices and since all postal employes will soon be engaged in the Christmas mail rush. Mr. Meek urges all aliens who have not registered to do so this | weekend of early next week ) they wait until later, he sald, they may have (0 wail the belter part of a day until posta] empioyes find sufficient time to accept their regis- trations. At best, the filling in of the forms and other necessary de- tails requires about one hour for each person, he said. Mr. Meek declared that to date a otal of 227 aliens have registered at the Bellefonte postoffice, sm WP — —— Preachers Get Their Deer A hunting party of four compos- ed of Rey, Waller H. Williams, of Philipsburg, his son. Rev. Clifford |C. Williams, of Laurelton, and | brothers, Rev, Gordon A. Williams, of New Cumberland and Aaron Williams of Port Matilda, set up a camp early Monday morning of las! week, and that day the three first named gentlemen each got their { deer, all bucks. Wednesday, Aaron | Williams bagged a deer, this one | being a doe. - - - Some Turnips A turnip weighing § pounds, 6 ounces, and measuring 22 inches in eircumf{erence, was taken from the garden of Mrs. James Zubler, near | Mifflinburg, recently ‘large turnips, ranging in weight from 2 to 3'% pounds, also were dug {from the garden, The turnips were | produced from this year's seed, ——— Three other Bellefonte DAR ‘State College Woman Accepts Members ~'niured Near Tyrone Tells of mitted to the Altoona hospital Sat- . ; - urday afternoon after being injured Founding of French Asy- in a traffic accident in Blair county lum Near Towanda | Struck by an automobile while | Standing on the highway two miles east of Tyrone afier she and her husband alighted Irom their car which had skidded, Mrs. Bertha Smith, 41, of State College, suffer- ed a compound fractured arm and broken jeg and was taken to Al- toona hospital where her condition Dr. L. V. Simmons The December meeting of Dellefonte Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution was held on Thursday evening, December 5, at the University Club, State College The meeting was called to order by the Regent, Mrs. Charles F . " Mensch. Mrs. William Frear, the "=8 described as “fair. chaplain, offered prayer, after which | State motor police sald the auto, the members gave the salute to the) driven by her husband BP, Smith. flag and recited the American Creed. | 42, had skidded on a curve and This was followed by the singing of | stopped + broadside in the ToRd, several Christmas carols, directed by | Smith and Ms wife got ont of the Miss Jane Cowell | car; police said. At the business mesting which W. K. Dunkel, 47, also of State was next in order two members! College. traveling in the same di- were accepted, A report of the bud-! rection, came upon the couple sud- get committee was given by Mrs | denly, his anto striking and knock- Hodgkiss | ing Mrs. Smith against a guardrail. The main feature of the program She was removed to the hospital by whs 8 talk by Dr. L. V. T. Simmons,| the Citizens’ fire company ambul- under the title “A Bit of American 8nce of Tyrone. History.” Miss Simmons told of the potato bang establishing of a French asylum) Dog Saves Family, near Towanda in the Year 1783 for! The barking of a pet dog awak- the Prec: Royalists who hoped tO] ened Mr, and Mrs. Albertson, at bring Marie Antionette to this ref-| their home in Benton, in time to uge. Forty original families came) save them from geath from the ef- and only three were left at the end fects of gas fumes. The coal gas of ten years, ag they gradually re from 4 turned to France at the end of the | 1, French Revolution. This project aided by Robert Morris and Tho ‘ much for the dog. which was hater unconscious when they found It, Girard of Philadelphia, {and which could. not. be. revived, The program closed by singing Antique Jewelry | two Christmas carols. A social hour ’ followed and. refreshments were! Watches and old cobw including served by the hostesses, Mrs, Rob. 8 walch which had bees in the fam- | ort Foster, Mrs. Pred Colvin, Mrs. | Uy since 1852, were stolen from the James Lowther, Mrs, George Ma. | home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Skeer. gargel and Mrs. George Mitchell, | at Bloomsburg. Value of the miss. The idea that the world is evil ex- | $1200. Entrance to plains much of what we hear and effected hy the use of a jinmy on | read, | a window, fe i The death of Sergt. Paul 8. Syster, | found shot to death in a wash room | last Monday at Forti George C. Meade, Md, has been listed as a sul- cide by a military board of inquiry. | Sergeant Syster was the son of Wal- | ter Byster of Bellwood, and served in the tank corps at Fort George C. Meade since his enlistment geveral years ago, His remains were brought to Bellwood for burial, a — mm— “Help the British” means, if you understand the world situation, “Help Yourself.” By Hr an lI ——————— roads the Classifieds. KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ — Eddie lsn’t Hard to last Bunday's Was | A State College woman was ad~ | the furnace, however, proved | at around home was Kiesgyed; ane of those rare recliuses who remain that way not because tney hate society-—-but because they prefer their own company lo that of anybody else. Probably he could aflord be indifferent about his corn cabbages, He had vats that much was tain he had a font from (77) and ineome, Bome way back of stories But could run a farm and make it pay Money for Foolish Things The way money for !oolish tion. Around his manner ma there vere all certainly the wa the OIC ecoeniric wa he kept muserat pu Ning DiACe of creature rabbits pheasant ‘ skunks and weasek Bou vermin, not, was (Continued on page 6) - Montgomery Man Blamed For Death Held ‘Negligent’ in Fatal Ae- cident to Woman on qual often a won! Highway IWERL LHOm is FRE oA #FRY y We truck he drove Oc- B als oO 1 TR week | cnarges filed against Dewalt Mrs. Brown was {fatally Pleasant Valley an dan street, Altoona, about in lhe evening of October walking two ch routs to M1: tere 10cided KNOwt *hiiher injured at Sheri- a » avenue ad 7 at . wi giong thie road ¥ idrens and her mother Chool Hallowe en | group én and Cream mic HOOT Rust the found Mrs. Brown lying on the berm. The wills stated the ruck pull off+the road and halt about a block away. One of the men in the truck came back 10 the she said City policemen who investigated the misha)d Mrs. Dysart told the jury the accident happened al. most beneath an are Ught R Ea I road She aw OTL ang —————————— Railroad Wreck Near Karthaus 2400 Tons of Soft Coal Scat- tered; Cars Jumble of Twisted Steel One of the most coslly wrecks in the history of the New York Cen- tral occurred near the Karthaus station Sunday morning when cars of a 125-car freight train jumped the tracks and scatiered 2400 tons of coal along hundreds of yards of the track bed Although no one was killed, or even hurt in the accident, the 40 wrecked cars are believed to be be- yond repair. A long distance of track was ripped up and traffic over the route was delayed for a considerable tithe The € cars which left the track were In the middie of a line of 135 loaded coal Cars. The train was on. the slight curve about 1500 feet from the Karthaus station. One set of four wheels, weighing ten tons, were hurled several hundred feet into the west branch of Susquehanna River, A defective journal is have caused the wreck the Deer Attacks Hunter was open season on huntress, deer, Wednesday of last week near Renovo. John Segar, Middie- burg, Snyder County, had just finished ascending a bank with the aid of a sapling. and as he { reached the top startled a deer, i which, instead of running, turned on Segar and caused him to stumble | back down the bank. Mrs. Segar, | sifting in the car rushed to her | husband's assistance, only to sip, jfall and fracture her right am. | She was treated in the Renovo haspital. The average American wasies | much time in desultory, careless and worthless reading i a ——— WN — i Charity is as good for the giver as j1 iz for those who need a help- ing hand, It not thought to Items CANDIDATE? The grapevine has that Bheriff Edward R. Miller, Jook- ing forward to the county election 1942 is toying idea of a candidale for Prothonvtar nolitical POLLACE] wilh ihe Deng CHRISTMAS TREES: Bellefonte merchant i for compan. abd whic Bellefonte now decor. The beh BEbF curn ues treets of mer Bellefonte and ARDOWE SOCK~ he Lreée an the hollda : 8 wl i lormed $200 each HUNTER AION V. FF. W. SPEECH: 1 ner » 5 persons Saiurday night, reacted ipa) s i Lhe even 1 by former Judge M, Ward ngicale ow Lhe Eurcpe srilain is the only nation ves and thinks along 5 We United | geleated the stand of the and Have he do in the England is be the Democt imst d we doub alone without vers serious internal upheavals, Person. ally, we're willing 10 forget the past, and give England every possible aid short <f war in the belief that after die war 8 over Great Britain and the United Static will be stronger than ever before in the World order CHRISTMAS CARDS It seems 10 this detector of trend:, hat the of Christmas cards this year is less than in any pre- vious year. Cards costing as little as one cent each are passable, while we've seen five cent ones which border the gorgeous. For 25 cents each you can buy cards which bear reproductions of famous old palntings-—-or paintings by present. day big-name artiste, who have been retained 10 do Christmas card work. This corner always has been a little alarmed about the Christ- mas card situation. We've watched it grow from year to year and we've always been fearful that the thing would gel out of hand--that uniecs (Continued on page three) cost ye Youngest Girl Hunter Shoots Deer Last Week Miss ia Lauth, 12-year-old! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Gor- don Lauth, Lock Haven, is probably { the youngest girl in the nearby county section to shoot a deer 8he was hunting Tuesday of last {week with her father's camp near Orviston and was oul with her grandfather, T A. Pletcher of Howard when she bmught down a nice buck with a single shot from her rifle. The bullet struck the deer’s middie Pai is no povice in the shooting game. She is credited with handl- ‘ing a gun with real skill, having icarned from her father who had plenty of praciice in the World War, and she has deen shooting for! several years This was not her firs! hunting ex- perience. Earlier in the Pall she shot a fine rabbit.